1997: ‘A Greyhound Should Have ‘Ears in the Manner of a Serpent’: Bestiary Material in the Hunting Manuals Livre de chasse and The Master of Game,’ in L. A. J. R. Houwen, ed., _Animals and the Symbolic in Mediaeval Art and Literature_, in the series Mediaevalia Groningana.

2000: National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, ‘Constructing Subjects in Anglo-Saxon England,’ University of Notre Dame.

2004: National Endowment for the Humanities Institute, ‘Anglo-Saxon England,’ at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

2005: Invited lecture to the English Ph.D. program on the topic of interviewing for jobs in teaching-intensive small colleges, at Ohio University.

2006: Two (sequential) invited lectures to the crosslisted graduate/undergrad. course, ‘Nature in the Middle Ages,’ at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State University.

2007: Invited lecture on Tolkien and his reception in the 1960’s, in a crosslisted graduate/undergrad. course, ‘The Two Rings: Wagner and Tolkien,’ at Cleveland State University.

2010: Invited lecture on medieval hunting, bestiaries, and forest law to the crosslisted graduate/undergrad. course, ‘Nature in the Middle Ages,’ at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State University.

Expertise:

Medieval British literature; philology; linguistics; History of the English Language; compositon/rhetoric; scientific and technical writing.

Professional Interests:

Anglo-Saxon and Norse literature; Chaucer; medieval hunting; fantasy and science fiction (including Tolkien, Rowling, and zombies); Japanese popular culture and study abroad; Hiroshima and literature of the atomic bomb; film studies.